Hi, I noticed that you ere editing quite a few Dutch artists and and I wanted to let you know that I have created a {{tl|Userboxes/Dutch}} template for understanding Dutch if you wanted to add it to your about section... [[User:DesPhagues|DesPhagues]] ([[User talk:DesPhagues|talk]]) 13:10, May 25, 2017 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed that you were editing quite a few Dutch artists and and I wanted to let you know that I have created a {{tl|Userboxes/Dutch}} template for understanding Dutch if you wanted to add it to your about section... [[User:DesPhagues|DesPhagues]] ([[User talk:DesPhagues|talk]]) 13:10, May 25, 2017 (UTC)

Nominations

Hi, would you mind nominating songs for a certain date a bit earlier? We cannot guarantee for seeing nominations done at such short notice, so to be sure that we see it try to nominate it a week before the desired date. Thanks . - Chris 12:29, December 19, 2010 (UTC)

First, thank you for your contributions @ ESC. Trying to identify the artists associated with the contest can be a bit difficult as most of them no longer exist and the bands tend to disaapear after the contest.
Right now in particular I need to find out what country Rock Bottom was from, Nowhere on the net can I find that band name associated with ESC 1958, (though a song by that name was a UK entry in '77)

In fact every other ESC artist for which you created a song page (and now we have an artist page for) needs to be identified. So at minimum please insert the source information for the ESC lists you created on top of each page, and beside each list entry (or on the artist page linked from the list) identify the country/hometown etc.

Logically a multinational contest whose entrants are left ambiguious doesn't fit a multinational site like lw ;) tia. --ES (talk) 07:01, April 5, 2013 (UTC) and please let me know if you have any questions.

It wasn't the 1958 entry, I never wrote so. It's simply a cover version of that song from the 1970s (it was releaed as a single - I own a copy). I have added cover versions to the lists because I thought it would be nice extra information. You can also delete them form those lists as cover versions are also referred to on the lyrics page anyway. Kopf101 (talk) 20:30, April 12, 2013 (UTC)

the song contest list pages are for the songs that were entries in the contest by the contest artists, not covers by other artists, or other songs by contest artists that were not songs entered in the contest. This is obvious from the page title, and also from a quick look at contest pages created earlier by other editors.

lw doesn't expect editors to own the recordings, what is expected is web refernces that verify the authenticity of the works so we know that pages do not contain bogus/spoof/spam/illegal content.

Covered songs are listed on the original song page (the first recorded instance) not on the original artist's page, contest page, tv show album page etc.

You can fetch the cover lists (via the page history diffs) and put them in your private space if you wish.

If you make song pages, you can help us by identifying the artist on their page.

OK, the thing is that all our ext refs list him with full name. How about we rename the artist page to "Patrick Riguelle" and make "Riguelle" the alias? Would that be something you could agree to? · Lichtwebertalkservice 21:35, February 8, 2016 (UTC)

That's not helpful!! Just tell me what exactly is the problem!! Even if I looked at another page I couldn't compare with mine because you've deleted it!!! --Kopf101 (talk) 20:05, January 7, 2017 (UTC)

@ES: a simple search & replace would have taken only marginally longer than deletion.

@Kopf: I suggest using preview instead of multiple edits if something (homepage) doesn't work on first try. — 6×9(Talk) 20:14, January 7, 2017 (UTC)

@Kopf: Please at least try Special:Wikifyold tool, hand crafting track lists has many problems, like proper capitalization. If you wish to venture further, please see Custom Scripts, which leads to Wikifyers for various sites for making track lists. --ES (talk) 02:33, January 8, 2017 (UTC)

I've added so many pages over the last six years and yesterday I just accidentally overwrote and then copied part of the given template (when adding a preformatted page). SORRY, everybody makes a mistake once in a while... --Kopf101 (talk) 06:37, January 8, 2017 (UTC)

No worries, we are still dealing with "Volarrrre" from 6 years ago ;-) --ES (talk) 11:27, March 9, 2017 (UTC)

Artist page creation

Page names, refs

Please refrain from creating song pages without a reference. Every song page needs a link to an external site (see song page footer) that verifies the artist name from a release (album, single etc.)
Picking your preference as to whether the artist name is in native script or english is not acceptable.
Also please see the example given above as to how to create a stub artist pages according to site policy, or if that is too cumbersome, avoid artist page creation until you are familiar with the procedure.

Sad to say after so many edits, your editions are as <......> as they were years ago. A trip to the docs is highly recommended. tia --ES (talk) 08:01, March 25, 2017 (UTC)

Decision(s)

Hi, Kopf,

as I've said already in my talk page, I'm sad about your decision and really want to change it, - we really appreciate your (as any other our user) contribution to LW. Everybody (me including) makes a mistakes, and pointing to them shouldn't be considered as mistreatment. Let's take my decision to change Lucie Jones EP into the single as an example: yes, it doesn't contain any other lyrics, but I should have noticed an instrumental song version... In other words, that may be considered as a mistake, 'cause instrumental song is an LW object too. So, I'm going to restore your initial page for this digital EP, as an expression of readiness to admit my own mistakes, in hope to change your decision :)

Ok, thank you. :) I apologise for overreacting. I understand the need of guidelines etc. but I was still a little pi**ed at a certain person (not you) who treats voluntary (!) contributors like idiots if they make minor mistakes. --Kopf101 (talk) 11:35, April 6, 2017 (UTC)

Hi again, - I'm really glad that you made the right decision, but looking at your recent contribs (especially corrected/deleted), I see that you was right, speaking about the need of guidelines - it still remains actual indeed :). Let me know if you'd like me to clarify in more detail what I'm speaking about :)

Thanks. I have noticed myself that I used wrong capitalization on file names for pictures, but I think I've done it correctly for the last couple of uploads. What else should I do differently? --Kopf101 (talk) 17:23, April 12, 2017 (UTC)

Images

Truth to tell, image file name capitalization isn't determined by LW policy, so actually it may differ from the display part of the album title, - just making them identical slightly simplifies the format of {{Album Art}} on artist page, and thus is desirable/recommended. In other words, that's not a violation of LW policy, and usually should not be considered as the reason for file deletion/reupload.

Quite another thing - file size and dimensions. Don't know if you have ever studied your contribs history (quite usefull thing, should note), but it'd show you, that considerable part of your images have been deleted/reuploaded (with their size as the reason in most cases).

So, the short answer to the question "what's wrong with your images?" is simple: "their size". File may be:

oversized: that's one of most common (and serious) violations of LW policy and leads to inevitable file deletion - knowingly it is written in bold red on Upload form page: "...not exceed a measurement of 500×500 pixels or a file size of 150 KB.. That's why your DeletedContributions list is such long - it contains a lot of images, deleted for the standard reason: "Too big for fairuse (max. is 500×500px/150 KB)".

thumbnailed": though low resolution images aren't desirable, actually that's not a violation of LW policy; but if image with a better allowable resolution is available, result will be the same - sooner or later your image will be reuploaded with a better one. The most funny thing is that quite often the source of your lo-res images actually contained much better quality image, just you've used image thumbnail instead of original.

Resume: we should strive to upload the best available image, but not exceeding allowable size. And if you find such image at some source, don't forget to use the original image, not its thumbnail (Use your browser context menu "View Image" for this task). If this (original) image size exceeds allowable limits, it should be resized/reduced to 500x500 px/150 KB before uploading.

Sounds quite complicated, and truth to tell, sometimes it may be really complicated (context menu may be disabled on some sites etc). But all this complicated job (image searching, resizing, adding mandatory description template with all required info, image uploading and even more) may be simplified up to a childish game and done in a few seconds with two our js-driven tools: iTune-Wikifyer and Spotify-Wikifyer. Sorry, I should leave now, thus here's just a short demo, showing how this job may look like (maybe I'll update/comment it tomorrow) - let me know if you have some questions.

Thanks, that's very helpful! I have to admit that uploading the oversized image was stupid (I simply forgot to resize it). Once I noticed, I made the following pictures especially small (since it's not in the docs that the highest quality possible up to 500x500 shall be uploaded - it only says "not higher than 500x500, so I thought "the smaller, the better"). I'll stick to 500x500 from now on. --Kopf101 (talk) 05:45, April 13, 2017 (UTC)

Frustration

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I was reading about your struggle with singles and that I empathize with where you are at. I have seen from the activity log that you are one of the main contributors to the site of late and I hope that this whole experience has not been too disheartening for you. If it helps I just posted a blog User blog:DesPhagues/Enhancements containing some of the same things that I have seen you struggle with. Hopefully engaging the wider wikia community will bring some resolution to some of the issues that we have both been struggling with. DesPhagues (talk) 12:30, April 14, 2017 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for your kind comment. It's indeed frustrating. I don't insist on singles, but I think it's unfair to not be given correct information and then be treated like yo were the one who did something wrong. I know I was very harsh towards that certain person, but I think he has to be shown that he is not our boss and that we are not his employees. Mais je crains que nous nous battions contre des moulins à vent... --Kopf101 (talk) 12:45, April 14, 2017 (UTC)

Dutch

Hi, I noticed that you were editing quite a few Dutch artists and and I wanted to let you know that I have created a {{Userboxes/Dutch}} template for understanding Dutch if you wanted to add it to your about section... DesPhagues (talk) 13:10, May 25, 2017 (UTC)